City and later in upstate New York with their father, an economist, and a housekeeper named Cuffy. Tatsinda, a traditional fairy tale, was named an Honor Book at the 1963 New York Herald Tribune'''s Children's Spring Book Festival. Enright's final children's book, Zeee, the story of a naughty fairy, appeared in 1966. Enright's short stories for adult readers were published in magazines such as The New Yorker, Ladies Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, The Yale Review, Harper's Magazine (monthly) and The Saturday Evening Post. They have been reprinted in anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories (1951, 1952) and O. Henry Prize Stories (1946, 1949, 1950, 1960); and were collected in Borrowed Summer and Other Stories, The Moment Before the Rain, and The Riddle of the Fly. Her final book, Doublefields: Memories and Stories, is a combination of short fiction and tales from her own life experiences. Reception and legacy According to children's literature expert May Hill Arbuthnot, "Elizabeth Enright has a gift for realism" and her style is "forthright and lively". Speaking of the Melendy series, Anita Silvey wrote, "These cosmopolitan children are intelligent, artistic, affectionate, and, most of all, interesting." Reviewer Irene Haas says Enright's "Keen perception of childhood and her remarkable gifts as a writer place her books among the select few that are timeless and enduring." She goes on to say her books are ones to "become deeply involved in, to absorb easily and happily and to remember always." According to Charisse Gendron, "Enright's most original contribution to children's literature remains her humorous and lyrical description of characters... They are ardently individual, each one, and... fascinating to read about." Works Children's books 1935 - Kintu: A Congo Adventure, Farrar & Rinehart; 1938 - Thimble Summer, Farrar & Rinehart — Newbery Medal Winner 1940 - The Sea Is All Around, Farrar & Rinehart 1951 - A Christmas Tree for Lydia, Henry Holt and Company — a small-format gift book illustrated by the author; originally published in the magazine Woman's Home Companion as "A Tree for Lydia") 1957 - Gone-Away Lake, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. — Newbery Honor book, ALA Notable Book 1961 - Return to Gone-Away, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1963 - Tatsinda, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. 1965 - Zeee, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. Melendy quartet 1941 - The Saturdays, Farrar & Rinehart — ALA Notable Book 1942 - The Four-Story Mistake, Farrar & Rinehart